Aspies with synesthesia?

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I have this, for letters, numbers, and days of the week-- each has a color.

Synathesia got me in hot water in kindergarten. My parents were called in school because the kindergarten teacher being the expert she was said I needed counseling and was dyslexic because I told her every letter had its own color and certain letters had more power when they were capitalized and others when they were lowercase. All letters, numbers and words had colors. I don't see the colors as much, except somethings when people speak I see colors come out of their mouth.

Yeah know that sounds weird, but that's they way it is -it is possible to hear colors.

I often find myself associating pictures and mental animations with certain types of music. Does that count?

I think Synathesia has to involve colors or taste. Have you heard of people that see auras around other people? That could even be a form of synathesia. However what you are describing is still a very advanced form of experiencing the world. I don't know what it is called though have heard of it before. Maybe it is synathesia. It's just not something that is spoken of much. I think most of us were afraid to speak of it, especially after bad childhood experiences of being reprimanded for seeing things differently.

Here's some interesting articles on Synathesia.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... Id=4602748

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/syne.html

I see music in my minds eye when I listen to it. It kind of looks like some winamp visualizations. There's a stream of light for each melody and instrument etc but it can be multidimensional or even fractal with better music like some classical music.

I'm also beginning to see processes as objects too. Like normal objects but they exist in 4D at the same time as 3d objects. When I was younger it was draining when it happened and made me very tired but it seems to be developing now.

I think it's normal but just not conscious for most people.

I have an interesting experience with music. I'm not sure if it's synesthesia, but it seems to be similar.

I've been thinking about all of the weird things my mind does since I learned about AS and started to try and give them names.

When I listen to music I like, I can visualize wierd things. It's like a regular daydream I might have, but it's paced/timed to the music and it's much more vivid than usual. Almost like a real dream or something. I can get so caught up, I can forget where I am. It's probably not so unusual I guess. But, each song seems to have it's own "vision". I can generally remember the same exact sequence that occured when listening to the song earlier by hearing it again. However, this changes if I don't listen to the song for a while.

This is something I can control, so it's not like I just stop in my tracks when I hear a song I like or anything. But if I am alone and able to concentrate I could probably just spend a few hours doing it. I don't do it too often these days. It's sort of frustrating. I have all these nice images in my head, but I can't show anyone. I enjoy looking at them, but I have a hard time drawing them or writing them down. They never come out the same when I try to express them. They are too internalized and nobody speaks my "mind-talk" to be able to appreciate them... :/ lol

Ticker, it doesn't *have* to involve colours or taste. Synaesthesia literally means mixing [of] senses. Eg some people may feel physical sensations of touch when they hear music.

I've always seen numbers,days and countries in colour.
I used to think I'd subconsciously associated the shapes of numbers
with different things,eg 2 is white as it looks like a swan. Doesn't
explain why 3 is green or 4 is red etc so that theory never got
off the ground !

As for countries I think it started off going by the colours of their
flags,but then again since when did Japan have a purple flag or
Denmark a yellow one ?

It's difficult to explain how you automatically 'see' the colours.I try
to make an effort and vary them which is quite therapeutic as you
see things in a different way. They still revert to the 'default' colours
though.

Ian
Scotland Uk

I am not sure if this is it, but I kind of have something at least similar. With numbers, letters. days of the week, months, and years; when a specific one of those come to mind, I associate it with color (but black and white). For example, 1 is darker than 10, z is darker than a, etc.

I have different forms of synesthesia. I hear noises if I look at flashing lights, and if I hear a loud noise, my vision wobbles (like if you hit the top of a TV). I also have space-time synesthesia whereby I visualize dates, times and events in 3D space. My sister also experiences synesthesia although she isn't on the spectrum.

I experience sensations for some auditory stimuli - usually when I am very tired or very stressed, but also sometimes when I am happy or excited.

Sometimes auditory input becomes overwhelming - I feel like someone smacked me in the back of the head, just like a blow.

Sometimes I am excited and things that people say will cause tingeling in my body or my spine

Some noises cause a very confused sensation - sort of like suddenly putting your hand in very hot or very cold water and not knowing which it is.

Most of these sensations occure in the nervous centers of the body - spine, back of the neck, chest, elbows, back of the knees etc.

It seems my brain produces an over excited response that delivers a ''confused message''

I have read that the underlying chromosomal mutations that cause synaesthesia are the same genes that cause Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (also a symptom of over firing in the brain and misdirected signals)